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Christmas Pantomime Guide

A guide to... Christmas * Panto Pantomime (2 Mix of Fairytales & Folk Stories *e.g. Cinderella, Snow White, Aladdin, Jack & The Beanstalk, Sleeping Beauty British Play Over 50,000 panto's performed For families at Christmas. since the first in 1717! Approx.174 pantos are performed each year! (4 3 million People Every Year! Seen by... The Plot A girl, who is actually a girl playing the part of a boy (the Hero), is the son of a man, who is playing the part of a woman (the Dame), will fall in love with a girl who is enough people to reach 3000 miles around the world!! Laid head to foot, that's playing the part ofa girl (the Heroine) actually Famous Celebrities K 6 (5) Panto Run- Time... John Charlie -Barbara Barrowman Chaplin Windsor 120 mins, twice a day, 12 1 6 days a week, for 6 weeks. That's 144 hrs on stage! Pamela 10 Anderson BAYWATCH *not including rehearsal, costume and makeup time! Christopher Biggins - one of Britain's best-loved performers! Starring every Xmas since 1969! Enter the Dame! *(only missing 2007 to win "I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here!") 246 full days in Panto!! (7) Makeup time: 51 hours! Most Profitable (8) *each Panto season Panto... £1.75 Million in 5 weeks! Dame - a male dressed £50,000 per day! as an extravagant but *Aladdin (2007) unconvincing woman. "He's Etiquette & Characters behind you!" "Oh no he's not" "Oh yes he is!" 6) Audience participation A Panto dwarf can earn his bodyweight in £1 coins Hissing / booing at the villains, cheering for the Hero * each Panto season 46 Kilos Main Characters: • Cow/Horse • Principal Boy • Dame • Villain • Good Fairy *Many years ago, at the Hippodrome Theatre (Stockport), the front end of the horse was Charlie Chaplin! (10 The Panto Always Ends Happily Ever After 1) http://www.bigpantoguide.co.uk 2) http://www.lazybeescripts.co.uk/Panto.htm, http://www.pantomime- alliance.co.uk/new_page_2.htm 3) http://www.squidoo.com/pantomime#module 11459451 4) http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2009/dec/22/pantomime-aladdin-cinderella-jedward, http://geography.about.com/library/faq/blqzcircumference.htm, http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2002/aug/28/science.research 5) http://www.its-behind-you.com/Factsheets/The%2OHistory%20of%20Pantomime.pdf 6) http://www.limelightscripts.co.uk/scripts/history.htm, www.ffe-uk.com. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantomime, http://www.christopherbiggins.com/?p=220 8) http://www.limelightscripts.co.uk/scripts/history.htm, www.ffe-uk.com, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantomime, http://www.christopherbiggins.com/?p=220 7) http://www.its-behind- you.com/Factsheets/The%20History%20of%20Pantomime.pdf 8) www.s 1378773/SnoaJAnpantomime, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article- -White-panto-axe-850-week-dwarfs-theyre-expensive.html, Willow Management 9) www.its-behind-you.com 10) www.bizzikid.co.uk/christmaspantomime.html ShowandStay. www.show-and-stay.co.uk LONDON THEATRE BREAKS

Christmas Pantomime Guide

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A guide to Christmas Pantomime from theatre breaks specialists – Show and Stay.

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